1948 On November 2, 1948, the 52-day battle of Liaoshen ended. Our army won the battle with the record of annihilation of 472,000 national troops at the cost of 69,000 casualties.
Among them, there were 324,300 captured officers and soldiers, including 186 senior officers above the National Army. After the war, our army held a military banquet and invited the captured generals of the national army to participate.
But during the banquet, a small episode happened. When a senior general was toasted, he lost his temper and threatened to fight "openly".
This person who lost his temper is Liao Yaoxiang , and Liu Yalou toasted him. Faced with Liao Yaoxiang's temper, Liu Yalou didn't say much, but smiled slightly and invited someone.
Liu Yalou
After this person appeared, Liao Yaoxiang was very surprised and apologized to Liu Yalou and punished himself for three glasses of wine. So, who is Liu Yalou invited?
was angrily criticized by Cao Xiangren
In fact, he had already shown his arrogant attitude when Liao Yaoxiang was captured. He has been pushing Lao Jiang to the cause of his failure. When we see Liao Yaoxiang's energy, we asked him to interrogate him, which is even more "missing" than him.
Cao Xiangren was the deputy chief of staff of Fourth Field during the Liaoshen Campaign. After seeing him, Liao Yaoxiang said indignantly: When I was in Myanmar, I wiped out a Japanese army. I won’t blame me for losing this time.
Cao Xiangren was not spoiled by him and said: You five armies fight one division, what's there to brag about?
is just such a sentence that made Liao Yaoxiang so angry that he couldn't speak.
Seeing that Liao Yaoxiang couldn't speak, Cao Xiangren continued to criticize Liao Yaoxiang. The most important thing that made Liao Yaoxiang break the defense is: Do you think there are Guangdong people in , the New Sixth Army, ? I think we can't understand using Cantonese on the radio?
Cao Xiangren
Then, he said that Liao Yaoxiang’s radio password was very bad and was cracked very easily by us. The series of criticisms made Liao Yaoxiang, who was just "unpredictable", feel a little angry and bowed his head and remained silent.
However, we don’t know whether he is convinced or not. So, why is Liao Yaoxiang so crazy? Still so arrogant after losing a battle?
In fact, after understanding his life, you can understand why he is so unconvinced.
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Liao Yaoxiang's grandfather was a private school teacher. Since he became sensible, he has been studying under the guidance of his grandfather. After six years of studying in a private school, Liao Yaoxiang was admitted to the county's higher primary school and began to receive modern education.
Liao Yaoxiang, who had just become civilized, felt very indignant when he saw China's internal and external troubles. At the same time, he also realized that there is no way to save China by relying on his inner resentment.
Liao Yaoxiang
So in 1925, he planned to apply for the talented Whampoa Military Academy , and learn the skills and knowledge of serving the country from here. Liao Yaoxiang's grades have always been excellent, so it is not difficult to enter the Whampoa Military Academy.
More importantly, he met a "noble man" during this period. This "noble man" is Principal Jiang. He saw that Liao Yaoxiang was talented and intelligent. If he trained hard, he would definitely be a talent that could be made.
Later, Chiang Kai-shek ordered Liao Yaoxiang to study abroad at the Saint-Sill Military Academy in France. Six years later, Liao Yaoxiang graduated with the first place and returned home.
Jiang Jiang cherishes and loves such top students very much. So as soon as Liao Yaoxiang came back, he was appointed as the cavalry chief company commander of the National Revolutionary Army.
Liao Yaoxiang
For a person who only has education but no qualifications, it is entrusted with important tasks. It can be seen that Jiang Jiang really likes Liao Yaoxiang very much. During the subsequent Anti-Japanese War, Chiang Kai-shek appointed Liao Yaoxiang as the chief of staff of the 200th Division of the Fifth Army.
It is very rare for a person with an ordinary background to reach this point by just relying on his education. This also made Liao Yaoxiang feel inflated and felt that he was not an ordinary person. This is also the reason why he has always been arrogant.
But Liao Yaoxiang is not a general who "talks about war on paper", he does have some strength.In the Kunlun Pass battle in in 1939, Liao Yaoxiang showed his strength and led his troops to capture the Japanese position south of Kunlun Pass.
After the Battle of Guinan ended, Liao Yaoxiang was promoted to the commander of the new 22nd Division in terms of merit. Later, he was sent by Chiang Kai-shek to Myanmar to fight against the Japanese army.
Liao Yaoxiang
When fighting against the Japanese army in Myanmar, Liao Yaoxiang was a great achievement and conquered the important Japanese army's territory many times. During the Liberation War, Liao Yaoxiang was promoted many times and was appointed as the commander of the Kuomintang's most elite Ninth Corps, with five armies under his command. Before the outbreak of the Liaoshen Campaign, Liao Yaoxiang was appointed commander of the Liaoxi Corps, reaching the heyday of his life.
It took Liao Yaoxiang 12 years from the major company commander when he graduated in 1936 to the commander of the corps in 1948. After seeing this, you may understand why he became so arrogant after being arrested?
After all, anyone else will brag about such a resume, so there is a reason why he is proud and complacent. But excessive pride will also lead to destruction, and this is how Liao Yaoxiang is.
It is worth mentioning that Liao Yaoxiang's failure is indeed as he said, and it is inseparable from Jiang Jiang.
Wei Lihuang
The end of the road
At that time, Wei Lihuang and Chiang Kai-shek's decision in the Northeast were in great conflict. Wei Lihuang advocated defending Changchun, Shenyang and Jinzhou . Liao Yaoxiang also deeply agrees with this proposal.
But Chiang Kai-shek had a different idea. He believed that he only needed to defend Jinzhou and asked Wei Lihuang to deploy all his troops here.
The first level of official slaughtered people to death, and Wei Lihuang could not refute it, and finally listened to Chiang Kai-shek's arrangements. Later, our army went straight to Huanglong and captured Jinzhou in one fell swoop, and Chiang Kai-shek regretted it.
But he did not make up for this error, but kept amplifying the error. According to the battle situation at that time, he finally defended Shenyang. But after hearing the words of Du Yuming in , Chiang Kai-shek planned to take back Jinzhou while the People's Liberation Army has not established a foothold.
Chiang Kai-shek
The task of attacking Jinzhou was finally handed over to Liao Yaoxiang. Everyone knows the result that Liao Yaoxiang was defeated and captured by our army. After being captured alive, Liao Yaoxiang was dissatisfied with one hundred people. Because he knew that it was a wrong decision to attack Jinzhou, but he was still driven to the shelves by Chiang Kai-shek, which eventually led to such an ending.
On November 2, Liao Yaoxiang was once very depressed after learning that the Liaoshen Campaign ended and the People's Liberation Army won a great victory. I always think that if I had disobeyed Chiang Kai-shek's orders, I might not have ended like this.
In addition, Liao Yaoxiang also feels that our army is fighting blindly and does not understand strategies and tactics at all. After listening, Mr. Lin smiled slightly and said: Liao Yaoxiang understands strategy and tactics, why are he still captured by us?
Liao Yaoxiang
In fact, it is already destined that our army can win. First of all, we don’t want the Kuomintang to have many factions, we are united in the whole army.
In addition, our army's combat effectiveness is also very tenacious. In the case of scarce firepower, we can still overcome various resistances. In contrast, Liao Yaoxiang's troops all had their own ideas. After losing the command center, the entire corps was like a headless fly. The commander of the New First Army even threw away the troops and fled back to Shenyang by himself. How can an army like
not defeat the war?
For this reason, Liao Yaoxiang became more and more angry the more he thought about it. So when our army held a banquet to entertain these captured generals, Liao Yaoxiang also had a dark face. Such an attitude is very unfavorable to our army's subsequent work. After all, if Liao Yaoxiang can be taken for his own use, it will be helpful for building the motherland and subsequent development.
Liao Yaoxiang
It is also difficult to convince Liao Yaoxiang, unless you can find someone who can suppress him. Although Cao Xiangren mentioned above was unable to speak, he could not convince him. Fortunately, General Liu Yalou has a killer weapon, he is Liao Yaoxiang’s former boss Zheng Dongguo .
Zheng Dongguo
Zheng Dongguo is a student of the first phase of Huangpu . He is a very famous general in the Kuomintang. Liao Yaoxiang also respects him very much. When they entered Myanmar to fight, the new 22nd Division led by Liao Yaoxiang was under the jurisdiction of Zhengdong Kingdom.
During the battle, Zheng Dongguo personally visited the battlefield to supervise the battle many times and contributed to the victory of many battles. For Liao Yaoxiang, Zheng Dongguo is undoubtedly a role model to learn from.
But he couldn't understand why Zheng Dongguo was here. Because he did not get any news that Zheng Dongguo was captured.
Zheng Dongguo
This is actually related to Chiang Kai-shek's micro-operation. After the People's Liberation Army conquered Jinzhou, Chiang Kai-shek ordered Zheng Dongguo to lead his troops to break through to Shenyang.
But under the siege of the People's Liberation Army, breaking through is very difficult. Moreover, at this time, the soldiers of Zhengdong Kingdom lost their will to fight due to long-term hunger. But Chiang Kai-shek didn't care about that much, and he had to execute the orders.
In helplessness, Zheng Dongguo formulated a breakthrough plan. But Zeng Zesheng's sudden uprising disrupted the deployment of Zheng Dongguo. Zheng Dongguo was finally disappointed with breaking through. At this time, Zheng Dongguo's subordinates were also disheartened by the Kuomintang regime, believing that Chiang Kai-shek and other senior Kuomintang leaders always pushed them into the sea of fire, so they were unwilling to work hard for Chiang Kai-shek, so they took Zheng Dongguo hostage and surrendered to the People's Liberation Army.
Like Liao Yaoxiang, Zheng Dongguo was not willing to do it at first, but after coming into contact with our party, he was influenced by our party's policies and decided to do things with us.
Zheng Dongguo
Liao Yaoxiang also felt deception after listening to the whole story. However, he did not blame Zheng Dongguo, but Chiang Kai-shek. It turned out that Chiang Kai-shek claimed to the outside world that Zheng Dongguo had been killed.
Liao Yaoxiang was also sad for a long time because of this incident. Now he realized that Chiang Kai-shek was concealing the news that Zheng Dongguo was captured. is to stabilize the morale of the army.
What Liao Yaoxiang wants to understand is that he can't just deceive the soldiers, but he can even deceive himself. This made him very upset and made Chiang Kai-shek's image in his heart begin to collapse.
After all, he was promoted by Chiang Kai-shek, so he respected Chiang Kai-shek very much. But the news of the conspiracy to be captured by Zheng Dong Kingdom made him feel that Chiang Kai-shek did not regard him as his own.
Chiang Kai-shek
Thinking of the various internal struggles within the Kuomintang in the Liaoshen Campaign, Liao Yaoxiang also understood that following such people was destined to have no future. After more in-depth exchanges with Zheng Dongguo, Liao Yaoxiang finally let go and no longer worry about why he failed.
Generally speaking, Liao Yaoxiang himself is not bad. He received education and went to France to study in order to make meritorious service, but he chose the wrong person, so he ended up today. After
, Liao Yaoxiang was ashamed of ignoring Liu Yalou's toast. He quickly raised his glass, walked to Liu Yalou to apologize to Liu Yalou, and punished himself for three glasses.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Liao Yaoxiang was sent to Gongdelin Prison for renovation and study. After being released from prison, he worked as a cultural and historical specialist in National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference with the last emperor Puyi and some former Kuomintang cadres.
Liu Yalou
Looking back to the Liaoshen Campaign, Liao Yaoxiang didn't understand why we could win at first, and even "mocked" us not knowing strategies and tactics.
Moreover, what he couldn't understand the most was why our army was not afraid of death and dared to act as a pioneer. As long as he knows a little about Higashino warriors, he can actually understand it.
At that time, most of Dongye were from the Northeast. At that time, the Northeast had completed land reform and the farmers were all assigned to the land. For those soldiers, they understand that following our party is the right thing to do.
Now that the National Army is going to capture the Northeast, these soldiers will naturally not give in easily, so they all go to war with fearless attitude.
